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so no one else sees how crazy this little girl is lol

my favorite trope to start this thing off: the main character doing an inexplicably difficult task in an almost impossible amount of time

i wish this book was longer

i don't know where this story is headed but i'm rolling so far lol

"nothing can force me to endure what i hate, compel me to suffer, to accept suffering, indignity, nothing, no one, not even God"

"people, other people, make it possible. but without other people, there would be no life at all"

"Jesus is easy to love and God much harder. Jesus also has his own reality, his place in history, whereas God is like a dim point of light in a dark room, visible only as long as you don't try to look directly"

the relationship dynamics in this book are very intriguing to say the least

had to stop in the middle of the chapter since someone decided to reorganize and then hide my kindle lol

"and what if life is just a collection of unrelated experiences? why does one thing have to meaningfully follow from another?"

"but if, though unjust, i acquire the reputation of justice, a heavenly life is promised to me. since then, as wise men prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness"

"the prisoner himself knows that he is a prisoner, an outcast, and he knows his place before his superior; but no brands, no fetters will make him forget that he is a human being"

"and what will one not give for freedom? what millionaire, his throat squeezed by a noose, would not give all his millions for one breath of air?"

"man is a creature who gets used to everything, and that, i think, is the best definition of him"

"i must be cruel only to be kind"

i feel like i know how this story is about to end, and i don't like where it's headed

atticus finch might be the greatest father i have ever read about

"the one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience"

"and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words"

"I dont know what I am. I dont know if I am or not. Jewel knows he is, because he does not know that he does not know whether he is or not."

"it takes two people to make you, and one people to die. that's how the world is going to end"

amory blaine has the worst love life ever

"Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses"